<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I’ve got one and almost never use it.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Was planning to use it to playback stuff from my iPad / iPhone via apps (e.g. iPlayer app) but found not enough supported it, or not well enough, so I ended up getting a mac mini for the TV anyway.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We have one at work plugged into a huge flatscreen that we use for mirroring laptops when presenting, and it’s great for that.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If the AppleTV had apps it would be more useful at home.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There’s rumours of new hardware being released soon.</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 24 Apr 2015, at 09:40, Chris Andrews <<a href="mailto:w@lfie.org" class="">w@lfie.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">Got one I might consider parting with. It's not used much now I have an Amazon Fire TV and a Mac Mini. Mail me off-list with an offer :)<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Chris<span class=""></span></div><div class=""><br class="">On Friday, April 24, 2015, Christopher Gutteridge <<a href="mailto:cjg@ecs.soton.ac.uk" class="">cjg@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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It's cheap enough I might get one unless someone has one they'd sell
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<div class="">AirPlay mirroring works nicely, other
similar things are few and far between and generally don't work
nicely.<br class="">
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AirPlay is apple-kit-only, so if you have e.g. a linux or
windows box or an android phone you want to connect, you're out
of luck. There's an open source audio-only implementation
though, it's built into XBMC/Kodi.<br class="">
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If you have an existing OSX or windows box to run it on,
AirServer (<a href="http://www.airserver.com/" target="_blank" class="">http://www.airserver.com/</a>)
is $15 and works fine with iOS/OSX devices for airplay
mirroring. If you run it on windows (and have the right wireless
adapter...) it'll do miracast, but miracast seems to be a bit of
a mish-mash of implementations at the moment, so you might not
find anything that'll talk to it.<br class="">
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Biscuits<br class="">
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On 24/04/2015 09:24, Jules Field wrote:<br class="">
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AirPlay will mirror the video and audio to whatever the AppleTV
is connected to.<br class="">
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See the "AirPlay" feature description on this page:<br class="">
<a href="http://store.apple.com/us/buy-appletv/appletv" target="_blank" class="">http://store.apple.com/us/buy-appletv/appletv</a><br class="">
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Jules.<br class="">
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How about audio?<br class="">
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<blockquote type="cite" class="">>From a Mac that's about 2011 or newer and
running OSX 10.8 or newer that's exactly what you can do
with AirPlay display mirroring. I think 10.9 then introduced
AirPlay display extending which allows you to use the ATV
box as a separate monitor.
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On Friday, April 24, 2015, Christopher Gutteridge <<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','cjg@ecs.soton.ac.uk');" target="_blank" class="">cjg@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a>>
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Apple TV boxes are pretty cheap now but I'm still not
clear on what they actually do. I loath iTunes and don't
buy anything through it, so that's not much use if
that's the only way to control it (as some of the online
stuff seems to indicate).<br class="">
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What I was hoping was that it would just let you use the
TV like an external monitor and also send audio to it.<br class="">
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